Presenter(s):

Tara Henry, MSN, FNP‐C, SANE‐A, SANE‐P

Forensic Nurse Services / Forensic Nurse Consultant, Providence Alaska Medical Center Anchorage, AK

Tara Henry has 19 years of experience performing medical forensic examinations on patients reporting sexual and physical violence. She is a family nurse practitioner specializing in the area of forensic nursing. For the past 16 years she has provided medical‐forensic care to living and deceased patients affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse across the life span. Dual-board certified as a SANE-A and a SANE-P, she is a forensic nurse consultant at Forensic Nurse Services in Anchorage, AK. She also provides expert witness testimony in both superior and district courts throughout the State of Alaska regarding topics in forensic nursing, strangulation, sexual assault, domestic violence, and sex‐related homicide. In addition to being a forensic nurse, Ms. Henry works as a nurse practitioner in the emergency department of two Alaska Native‐owned hospitals. She travels throughout the United States providing domestic violence and sexual assault training and consultation services for health care providers; hospital administrators; State, Federal, and municipal law enforcement agencies; advocacy agencies; municipal and State prosecutors; and defense attorneys. In addition, she works with several Alaska Native‐owned hospitals providing sexual assault program evaluations, quality assurance and peer reviews, and contract clinical services for domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual abuse cases.